Social media and mental health
Thursday 9th June 2022
Watch this video abstract from Lizzy Winstone on her JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent social media user types and their mental health and well-being:
Results from a longitudinal survey of 13–14-year-olds in the United Kingdom’
Authors; Lizzy Winstone, Becky Mars, Claire M. A. Haworth, Jon Heron, Judi Kidger. First published: 10 March 2022
Several Wiltshire secondary schools contributed to the data.
Conclusions
Findings suggest that broadcasters—adolescents with high levels of content sharing in addition to messaging and browsing online—are most likely to be experiencing poor mental health a year later. Recommendations regarding social media use should expand to consider different user types, and mental health implications of their engagement with different online activities in addition to screen-time.
